(Part 2) Top products from r/bladerunner

Since OP will not deliver, I will do my best to contribute. Here's a summary of the book:

>In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner's original release, Cinefex, the respected magazine devoted to movie design and special effects devoted an entire, extended issue to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. That issue has been out of print since then, but in constant demand -- copies now sell on the collector's market for over USD100. Titan Books is proud to bring this classic back into print, in a remastered hardcover edition. Described as 'the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner's special effects', this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and the legendary designer Syd Mead.

As of this posting, the book is $39 on Amazon. Its price has been as low as $16.29, but not for a while.

Well, it's always going to be controversial.

According to Ridley Scott, Deckard IS a Replicant, and over the years, he's released two cuts of the film to move towards making this more explicitly unambiguous.

According to several other key creative minds on the film, including the producer, the writers, and the main actor, it was always meant to be left subtle and ambiguous.

According to me, I much prefer the film with it left ambiguous.

I think it has a much more interesting meaning and purpose to it that way, and is just a better film, frankly. Ridley is known for being a stubborn old goat who domineers all he surveys, but he ain't the boss of me, and I think he's just plain wrong.

Anyway, over the years, I have seen so many various cuts and alternate scenes and versions (such as the megacut on Disc 4 of the box set) that Blade Runner has kind of become the ultimate Phil Dick movie, in that it exists in several different self-contradictory forms simultaneously in a way that is both nonsensical and impossible, very much like the plots of many of his books. I find that to be the greatest tribute to PDK of all (even if it is the unintentional result of a notoriously volatile production).

I can't recommend reading Paul M Sammon's Future Noir highly enough, if you have any interest in this subject.

Edit: Newer link. Looks like even books get a 'Final Cut' nowadays.

I got from amazon market place

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0752807390/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1413146535&sr=8-1&keywords=future+noir

The book new is fairly expensive, my copy was used but in perfect condition.

I am talking about this one

but thanks for the reply.

It reached out to a seller or two and they confimed it should be factory sealed.

According to the top Amazon review "a big hunk of this book is [...] dedicated to Blade Runner".

The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist

There were a couple of books with design sketches and storyboards in the 80s but Blade Runner Sketchbook and The Illustrated Blade Runner are collector items and sell for big money now.

We were also promised Jetpacks.

I can't say I've read any of the academic texts on the film, but amazon has quite a few of them, which should also be available through your school's library or inter-loan system:

https://www.amazon.com/Retrofitting-Blade-Runner-Androids-Electric/dp/0879725109

https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Blade-Runner-T-Shanahan-ebook/dp/B00LAZPHQ6

https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Philosophy-Popular-Culture-ebook/dp/B07GBXQCFZ

https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Constellations-Sean-Redmond-ebook/dp/B01G12GNS8

https://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Theory-Blade-Runner-Practice/dp/1501311794

https://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Metanarratives-Blade-Runner-Literature/dp/1137439726

https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Experience-Science-Fiction-ebook/dp/B00BAHAS0E

https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Four-Essays-ebook/dp/B00E8M1GW2

https://www.amazon.com/Studying-Blade-Runner-Instructors-Films/dp/1903663792

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Vol 1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1608865002/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_KsTsDbHGHJCMK

It’s a six part set of books though, so if you decide to get it as a physical edition rather than digital, it won’t be cheap.

Probably on Amazon. [$30](BLADE RUNNER (RED TRANSLUCENT VINYL) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BSTVEDE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_X.lFybK46K53B)

https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Seems-Significant-Jan-Bottiglieri/dp/160964350X

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blade-Runner-2049-Interlinked-Art/dp/1789092116/ref=sr_1_2?keywords="Blade+Runner+2049%3A+Interlinked%3A+The+Art"&qid=1558990833&s=gateway&sr=8-2

2077 is going to have a lore book coming out shortly after game too in case you hadn't heard. https://www.amazon.com/World-Cyberpunk-2077-Marcin-Batylda/dp/1506713580

If it is by Vangelis then I own the CD version. They still sell it online: https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-S-T-OST-VANGELIS/dp/B000025FGT/

Here's where you can get it digitally on Amazon. It's also included in the collector's edition.

http://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Style-LED-Umbrella/dp/B00HEQKGFM

Kubrick's commissioned AI illustrations.
https://www.amazon.com/I-Artificial-Intelligence-Stanley-Spielberg/dp/0500514895

Pale Fire https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679723420/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_AerKDbNHJC071

Joi picks it up from the table in K's apartment too.